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I am not sure if anyone heard it, but Derek Wills had Oilers PBP announcer Jack Michaels on the radio a few days ago, and when asked about the Oilers forward lines @ around the 18:00 mark he said that Drake Caggiula, Ty Rattie and Jessi Puljujarvi would be counted on this season for 55 goals.

Michaels is also a firm believer that Cam Talbot is a better goalie when he is playing +70 games, and that the Oilers are one of the strongest teams in the League at centre.

As for being one of the strongest teams at C, if RNH were playing C, I would agree. But with him bumped up to the wing, their bottom 2 Cs are really weak, leaving them mid to strong at C, but not 'one of the strongest'

I am not sure if anyone heard it, but Derek Wills had Oilers PBP announcer Jack Michaels on the radio a few days ago, and when asked about the Oilers forward lines @ around the 18:00 mark he said that Drake Caggiula, Ty Rattie and Jessi Puljujarvi would be counted on this season for 55 goals.

Michaels is also a firm believer that Cam Talbot is a better goalie when he is playing +70 games, and that the Oilers are one of the strongest teams in the League at centre.

I'm honestly trying to get my head around how Michaels breaks down this number of 55 goals for these three players. Maybe not a 35-goal scorer, but one would have to think he must envision one from the group tallying at least 25. For three players who have never even scored 15 goals in a season this is the very definition of a hot take.

Caggiula shows some growth in the same role, and ups his total to 15
Rattie gets 1st line RW, where he pots 25
Puljujarvi plays 2nd line RW with Draisaitl, and puts up 15.

Each of those things could happen. But in the aggregate, that's a lot of optimism.

I have to disagree. I do not see any possible scenario in which Ty Rattie becomes a 25-goal scorer. None.

Patrick Maroon once scored 27 on McDavid's wing, but he was already an established top-nine player with a couple of seasons of 40-point production levels to his name. Rattie is arguably not even an NHL player.

The funny thing is when he talked about why he mentioned the departed Eberle as the replacement goals needed, who left two years ago.

55 goals ...

JP career best 12 last year
DC career best 13 last year
TR 30 games total with 4 career goals total over 7 seasons with 3 teams

thus far the 3 have combined for 43 goals in their careers

I suppose somehow these 55 goals could happen or be approached, but only way that is conceivable is if these 3 guys are all top 6 wingers on your team and get heavy PP time, and it's hard to imagine that as a good thing?

Caggiula shows some growth in the same role, and ups his total to 15
Rattie gets 1st line RW, where he pots 25
Puljujarvi plays 2nd line RW with Draisaitl, and puts up 15.

Each of those things could happen. But in the aggregate, that's a lot of optimism.

I dont even know what to say about that. I dont think the '15' goal predictions are outlandish, but the 25 for Rattie dont seem reasonable, but hey, who knows? If hes genuinely their 1st line RW it could happen. Maybe.

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